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Monday May 12, 2008

Good news for all the user, using JDK6. Though I am little late in
writing blog on this but its OK ;). JDK6 current update comes with a
new L&F(Look And Feel) called Nimbus.

Nimbus provide more lively look and feel in Swing UI. Here are some examples:

Default Look And Feel(Click to see enlarged mode)Nimbus Look And Feel((Click to see enlarged mode)

Since
the image is little small and related to my Online Java Project(which I
can't change), so I provide another example here from my last blog code.

Default Look And FeelNimbus Look And Feel

Something
more interesting is focus traversal on components. For Default L&F,
you can see that there is a dotted rectangle on Button 3, which says
"Focus is here" whereas in Nimbus you can see Button 1 with little
bluish highlight which says "Look at my focus" :)